SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Communication, Thomas Theorem, Symbolic Interactionism
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Socialization: the process by which people learn their culture. Becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others. Role: a set of behaviours expected of a person occupying a particular position in society. Understand who we are in relation to others, and differentiate ourselves. Begins in childhood, develops in adolescence - lifelong process. Self: a set of ideas and attitudes about who one is as an independent being. Proposed first social-scientific interpretation of the process of self- formation. Infants demand immediate satisfaction but begin to form a self- image when their demands are denied (e. g. when parents don"t feed them every time they wake up in the middle of the night) Because of many lessons in self-control, the child eventually develops a sense of what constitutes appropriate behaviour and a moral sense of right and wrong. Social interaction allows the self to emerge.
